Edit: I see what you did there (and what happened in my earlier post). 👍
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iOS 13.6 Beta Adds Toggle for Turning Off Automatic iOS Update Downloads
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Because it can break stuff or have other consequences. Intentional or unintentional.
I wish this would’ve rolled out to 13.5 before I jailbroke my iPhone. Anywho my phone looks and acts the way I want it to now, so there’s no way I would want to jump back on the beta train for this feature.
People using their phones to connect to medical devices like Dexcom glucose monitoring, where the device maker updates their app infrequently.
iOS updates can impact app functionality in ways that are at best inconvenient (having to click through a "this iOS version is unsupported" every single time you open the app) to at worst life threatening (signal dropouts due to changes in bluetooth functionality leading to missed low blood glucose warnings).
I've had it multiple times where it will nag me and I'll tell it either not now or later and a few seconds later, the nagging box pops up again. Twice, I've had it where I was screen recording something that I had one shot at capturing, and the nagging box popped up. The first time, I was able to get rid of it immediately, but it was still recorded, while second time, I was away from my device and the box was sitting there when I got back. I went back and looked at what I had recorded, and the box had popped up right after I left the device to go work on something else, causing 3/4 of the video to have that box in the middle of the screen, which made the recording a total loss.
I'll update when I want to; the red badge on the settings icon tells me all I need to know.
*Edit: Typo corrected.
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Many people with older devices do not want to upgrade to the newest iOS for many reasons including performance.
I have an iPad mini 2 that I keep on iOS 10.
It's surely only a matter of time before we truly do have aromatic downloads... I’d like a subtle breeze of lemongrass and ginger every time the twitter app gets an update please!
This is their whole plan to ditch macOS altogether. Who needs to run macOS If iPadOS can do everything just fine? Virtualisation? Professional grade software? Field support? Leave it to windows and Linux. macOS users need no those bs. /s
I’d prefer a toggle that lets you select 0-30 days after release. That way you are forced to upgrade but can delay it.
I’m a bit confused. I already have automatic downloads for app updates turned off in Settings > iTunes & App Stores.
What’s the difference here?
What’s the difference here?
Here‘s an example from my post just the other day: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...after-updating-from-ios-13-3-to-13-5.2240342/
"You can now decide whether or not your iPhone or iPad can automatically download iOS updates when connected to WiFi, and when those updates are installed."
That alone would be worth upgrading..
That alone would be worth upgrading..
This isn't good. It means they think iOS14 is gonna be so bad, even compared to iOS13, that many people will need a way to stop it even downloading.
People on metered internet connections at home. I used to be in a 125 GB limit and tried to do all my updates on my work network instead of wasting my home bandwidth.
Right?! I bet Apple could really capture that "just opened electronics" scent.
"Mmmmm. I know it's only software, but it smells just like a new phone!"
App update is not the same thing as iOS update. That button you see only controls the apps you downloaded, while this new toggle controls system Update. “iOS App is not iOS”.
What?
Meanwhile, enterprise user would welcome this change as they don’t want workers randomly installing iOS updates and break their corporate apps or causing issues in their workflow. Cue the iOS 13 mails app fiasco.
Really? Disabling automatic downloading of iOS updates should have been a thing in iOS 6. My iPhone 4 is still wasting 3+GB on the unwanted iOS 7 update I will never install. iOS 7 was trash and set Apple on a path of iOS turning to crap. iOS 6 looks beautiful by comparison.
Does this also mean we won't get nagging notifications in the Settings app while we wait for a stable version of iOS 14?
Damn autocorrect spilled the beans on the next "one more thing".It's surely only a matter of time before we truly do have aromatic downloads... I’d like a subtle breeze of lemongrass and ginger every time the twitter app gets an update please!
Thanks. Still a little confused. In Settings > General > Software Update, there’s an option to turn off automatic updates.
Apparently, that toggle won’t prevent update from being downloaded via WiFi, which is still bad for a lot of people with metered connection. Also, when update is installed, iOS will go into berserk mode trying to push update being installed as soon as possible. Not really fun.
That mainly controls the automatic installation of an update, while the automatic download is something that is enabled by default and is not controllable by the end user, at least not until iOS 13.6 it would seem.
Thanks both - makes sense.
I do remember getting the annoying ‘install update’ prompt numerous times on my old iPhone 6 which I retired last year when I bought the 11. Strangely though, I don’t get this alert on my 11. I’m still on iOS 13.4 at the moment, haven’t bothered to update it yet. On the software update settings page, there’s a link to ‘download and install’.